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up
by
facts
.
You
and
I
are
not
permitted
to
vote
as
long
as
we
remain
in
the
Service
,
nor
is
it
verifiable
that
military
discipline
makes
a
man
self-disciplined
once
he
is
out
;
the
crime
rate
of
veterans
is
much
like
that
of
civilians
.
And
you
have
forgotten
that
in
peacetime
most
veterans
come
from
non-combatant
auxiliary
services
and
have
not
been
subjected
to
the
full
rigors
of
military
discipline
;
they
have
merely
been
harried
,
overworked
,
and
endangered
--
yet
their
votes
count
.
"
Major
Reid
smiled
.
"
Mr.
Salomon
,
I
handed
you
a
trick
question
.
The
practical
reason
for
continuing
our
system
is
the
same
as
the
practical
reason
for
continuing
anything
:
It
works
satisfactorily
.
"
Nevertheless
,
it
is
instructive
to
observe
the
details
.
Throughout
history
men
have
labored
to
place
the
sovereign
franchise
in
hands
that
would
guard
it
well
and
use
it
wisely
,
for
the
benefit
of
all
.
An
early
attempt
was
absolute
monarchy
,
passionately
defended
as
the
'
divine
right
of
kings
.
'
"
Sometimes
attempts
were
made
to
select
a
wise
monarch
,
rather
man
leave
it
up
to
God
,
as
when
the
Swedes
picked
a
Frenchman
,
General
Bernadotte
,
to
rule
them
.
The
objection
to
this
is
that
the
supply
of
Bernadottes
is
limited
.
"
Historic
examples
range
from
absolute
monarch
to
utter
anarch
;
mankind
has
tried
thousands
of
ways
and
many
more
have
been
proposed
,
some
weird
in
the
extreme
such
as
the
antlike
communism
urged
by
Plato
under
the
misleading
title
The
Republic
.
But
the
intent
has
always
been
moralistic
:
to
provide
stable
and
benevolent
government
.
"
All
systems
seek
to
achieve
this
by
limiting
franchise
to
those
who
are
believed
to
have
the
wisdom
to
use
it
justly
.
I
repeat
'
all
systems
'
;
even
the
so-called
'
unlimited
democracies
'
excluded
from
franchise
not
less
than
one
quarter
of
their
populations
by
age
,
birth
,
poll
tax
,
criminal
record
,
or
other
.
"
Major
Reid
smiled
cynically
.
"
I
have
never
been
able
to
see
how
a
thirty-year
old
moron
can
vote
more
wisely
than
a
fifteen-year-old
genius
...
but
that
was
the
age
of
the
'
divine
right
of
the
common
man
.
'
Never
mind
,
they
paid
for
their
folly
.
"
The
sovereign
franchise
has
been
bestowed
by
all
sorts
of
rules
--
place
of
birth
,
family
of
birth
,
race
,
sex
,
property
,
education
,
age
,
religion
,
et
cetera
.
All
these
systems
worked
and
none
of
them
well
.
All
were
regarded
as
tyrannical
by
many
,
all
eventually
collapsed
or
were
overthrown
.
